Le lieu propre du néant
For Rachel Whiteread, the void has a shape, and nothingness occupies a place. The British artist solidifies specific volumes of air (the interior of bottles, the space surrounding a mattress, the interior space of a room, a house, etc.); in doing so, she highlights the emergence of absence. The orig...
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| description | For Rachel Whiteread, the void has a shape, and nothingness occupies a place. The British artist solidifies specific volumes of air (the interior of bottles, the space surrounding a mattress, the interior space of a room, a house, etc.); in doing so, she highlights the emergence of absence. The original object disappears and a new form appears, a kind of simulacrum which is neither trace nor ruin, but a liminal and monumental object. As a form of positivist deconstruction, the object disappears by returning in the form of an archetypal image, as a new object to contemplate. Through the analysis of some of her works, this paper deepens the concepts of vestige, trace, and contemporary anti-monumentality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-689856159fc34510bccd398d9ff7be332022-12-21T19:28:13ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022018-11-0125Le lieu propre du néantPamela BianchiFor Rachel Whiteread, the void has a shape, and nothingness occupies a place. The British artist solidifies specific volumes of air (the interior of bottles, the space surrounding a mattress, the interior space of a room, a house, etc.); in doing so, she highlights the emergence of absence. The original object disappears and a new form appears, a kind of simulacrum which is neither trace nor ruin, but a liminal and monumental object. As a form of positivist deconstruction, the object disappears by returning in the form of an archetypal image, as a new object to contemplate. Through the analysis of some of her works, this paper deepens the concepts of vestige, trace, and contemporary anti-monumentality.http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/7638contemporary artsculpturespacevoidcasttrace |
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